Researchers have found that the way DNA is packaged in cells can directly impact how fast DNA itself is copied during cell division. They discovered that DNA packaging sends signals through an unusual ...

SALT LAKE CITY—A new discovery from researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah concerning a fundamental understanding about how DNA works will produce a "180-degree ...

After fertilization, embryos race through rapid cell divisions before slowing down to build specialized cells that will carry ...

Inside every cell, inside every nucleus, your continued existence depends on an incredibly complicated dance. Proteins are constantly wrapping and unwrapping DNA, and even minor missteps can lead to ...

A new article analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study demonstrates that the multilaminar ...

DNA has to be carefully packaged and organized in cells so it will both physically fit into the nucleus, and also remain accessible to the cellular machinery that transcribes active genes. Together, ...

Specially packaged DNA secreted by tumor cells can trigger an immune response that inhibits the metastatic spread of the tumor to the liver, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell ...

The paper B.W. Bauer et al., “Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a ‘swing and clamp’ mechanism,” Cell, 184:5448–64, 2021. Approximately 2 meters of DNA is crammed into each of the human body’s ...

Recent research has shed light on the complex processes that cells use to maintain the quality of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...